Coming February 2024
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For a member of a High Family on the matriarchal, gem-rich world of Tanar, marriage weeks mean celebration, with lavish gifts even for the servants—and the freedom to
choose whichever suitor a girl desires.
A shame that Zuli Yalsmon’s family barely ranks as Regarded after the assault that exiled her sister. For her marriage week, Zuli must accept whoever deigns to appear, with whatever they decide to offer.
And unless something changes drastically in the next three days, instead of valuable business assets, Zuli’s entire future? Worth exactly three shiny river rocks on an overly plain ring.
If only she knew the real name of the man she truly loves…
A rags-to-riches romance in a lush new sci-fi world, perfect for fans of whip-smart main characters with hidden identities and secrets aplenty.
THE INKLET COLLECTION (Hardcover Collector’s Edition)
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Aurealis Award-winning author Amy Laurens, along with beloved authors Liana Brooks and Thea van Diepen, bring together this collection of all 100 short stories in the Inklet collection – plus seven more.
Imagine…
• …discovering your friends’ new kitten can talk – and wants to hire you as their psychologist.
• …learning that your enemies-to-lovers attraction rests on a shared divine heritage you never knew you had.
• …the lengths the fairy godmother might go to in order to ensure the prince marries the right girl.
• …the torment of receiving everything you’d ever dreamed of – literally – only to realize you have to give it up to stay alive.
• …realizing all the old myths about monsters in the deep are true.
Welcome to the Inklet Collection. Inside, find heroes prepared to rearrange the universe in order to be with the ones they love, women breaking free of societal oppression to live rich lives and fulfill their dreams, teens who feel all-too-ordinary finding their place in a magical world, protagonists who wield power to protect the downtrodden, immortals carving space in a finite, mortal world and people who make mistakes – that sometimes kill them.
Oh, and a smattering of fatal unicorns.
PRIME SENSATIONS
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CHAPTER ONE
“Unidentified vessel, we are Waste Hauler 133 out of Darrian 6. We carry no trade or crew,” the ship’s AI droned in a bored monotone.
Lana dropped into the waste hauler’s modified control booth and took over. “Uniden-tified vessel, be advised. I steer like a drunken moose, alter your course.” The reverb over the frequently patched comm lines made her sound like an old man with a lifelong bitter-root habit.
Sweat dripped down her nose. The waste hauler had a hull thirty years older than she was, and an environmental system older than that. It had survived two major system wars by being too worthless to target. And Lana was well aware that, as a debtor working off her ransom to the Iloni nation, she was slightly less valuable than the ship.
The comm crackled and she thought she heard the word “boarding.”
“Unidentified vessel, I am deaf and blind. I give you no authorization to come near this vessel. If you keep to your projected course I will have no choice but to heartlessly smash your hull because of physics.”
The other ship tried to respond.
FEY LIGHTS
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A story about lost love, second chances, and revenge…
When Jeani crash lands on a backwater world, she knows she’s in trouble. The slave trader Hothi is looking for her, and her bosses are going to eat her alive if she screws up another mission.
Discovering she’s half a world away from the planet’s only space port is a blow – but it doesn’t rock her nearly as much as her reunion with a man she barely remembers, from a past she wants to forget. Can she do the right thing, and leave him again?
ESCAPE
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“If we value the freedom of mind and soul, … then it’s our plain duty to escape” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Nine short stories: nine teeny-tiny escape hatches from reality. A chance to run away from worries, to explore the distant stars, to conquer death and save the world.
Take a chance, make a choice: a better future is out there. Let Escape be yours.
Includes The Following Short Stories:
Neon Snow (post-apocalyptic) – Seventy (exploring new worlds) – Level Nine (VR games) – Red Planet Refugees (exploring new worlds) – Dream Away (VR games) – The Boy Named No (human evolution) – The Dog Is Dead (speculative futurism) – The Lies We Know (military sci-fi) – Here She Lies (futuristic spies and secrets)
IF YOU GIVE A SKELETON A 3D PRINTER
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Meet Skeleton, usually from the pond, currently hiding out in the town library trying to 3D print a body. Humans tend not to take skeleton rights seriously otherwise, see.
And this skeleton needs to defend their rights, or else pfft goes their pond.
Of course, there might be an even bigger disaster lurking on the horizon…
A charming, heart-warming story about being yourself and finding your place in the world.
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Chapter 1: What The Skeleton Did In The Dark
I found the internet! So helpful!
It took three tries, but I broke into the local library at night, and I’ve been spending all my midnights researching 3D printing material that feels like skin. It’s not great, but I think I can get the squish right.
Let’s see… does Thingiverse have muscles?
No? Why not??
Oh, right, I’m the only immortal skeleton wandering around St Louis—or probably anywhere. How would I even know? How do you even start that conversation? “Hi, so… are you just an undying skeleton in a suit too?”
I don’t see that going well.
Okay… 3D scans of muscles… Oddly enough, Google is less helpful here.
I’m probably on a watch list now.
I know, 3D scans of famous statues.
Ooo! Do I want to be David or Venus de Milo? Hmmm. What was I when I was alive? I was… alive. Yup, remember that. I think I broke my leg once, pretty sure, there’s a line there that I have to glue up sometimes. I had an actual brain once too, but I guess some things soak into the bones and some things don’t.
Maybe I’ll print one set of muscles from each?
…Did you know the David statue was 17 feet tall? I did not.
Venus is 6’8”. Eat your heart out, Gwendoline Christie!